Two Scottish families told relatives were killed in hostage crisis
Two families in Scotland have been told their loved ones are among those believed to have been killed or are still missing in the Algerian hostage crisis.
Two families in Scotland have been told their loved ones are among those believed to have been killed or are still missing in the Algerian hostage crisis.
The four-day stand-off in the Sahara desert came to a violent and bloody end when Algerian special forces mounted a "final assault" on the last Islamist militants holding out at the remote BP gas plant at In Amenas.
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